WASHINGTON — Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy suggested on The Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast, out Wednesday, that the US “may have been a nation in decline for the last half-decade.”

“We may have been a nation in decline for the last half-decade. We may have been a nation in decline for much of even the last half-century. But it doesn’t have to stay that way,” Ramaswamy told The Post’s Miranda Devine.

“I believe we can still be a nation in our ascent, but we have to confront what the actual failures are,” he added. “One of those deepest failures, is the failure in our education system.” 3

Ramaswamy, 40, made the theme of American decline one of the themes of his 2024 run for the White House.

On Dec. 26, 2024, Ramaswamy ignited a MAGA-world firestorm for posting a

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